Asexual Generation and Reproduction
Sexual reproduction involves the production of new cells by the fusion of sex cells (sperm and ova) to produce a genetically different cell. Asexual reproduction, o...
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Her shoes should have warned him. The shoes that Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson wears in the 1944 Double Indemnity—pumps with an unsightly ruffle of tulle on the toe, bedroom sl...
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Her shoes should have warned him. The shoes that Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson wears in the 1944 Double Indemnity—pumps with an unsightly ruffle of tulle on the toe, bedroom s...
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Hamburg (dpa) - Asexual micro-organisms continue to display an
amazingly diverse ability to adapt to their ever-changing environment
as they have over the past 100 million y...
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Veterinarian Bob George sliced open the dead shark and saw the outline of a fish. No surprise there, since sharks digest their food slowly. Then George realized he wasn't looking at the stomach of ...
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Female sharks can fertilize their own eggs and give birth without sperm from males, according to a new study of the asexual reproduction of a hammerhead in a U.S. zoo.The joint Northern Ireland-U.S...
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A British zoo announced Wednesday the virgin birth of five Komodo dragons, giving scientists new hope for the captive breeding of the endangered species.In an evolutionary twist, the newborns' eigh...
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The first in a series of what will surely become a regular feature. Ladies and gentlemen, a peek inside office life with Mr. Tom Scocca, the New York Observer's Off The Record columnist. At right: ...
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Starting Sunday, New Jersey joins eight other states in making it illegal for employers and landlords to discriminate against transgendered people.The law, which sailed through the Legislature in D...
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Coram Boy, the play with music that comes to us via acclaim at London’s National Theatre, is a wonderful, near-mad folly on Broadway.
Let me say at the outset that, unlike many of my miserabl...
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